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By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

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Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Inspire
Activity
Teaching
Personal
Present
Vision
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It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.
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Your style is the way you talk in paint.
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that you are practically blind to all other things, that nothing else will satisfy you.
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A weak background is a deadly thing.
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Don't worry about your originality. You couldn't get rid of it even if you wanted to. It will stick with you and show up for better or worse in spite of all you or anyone else can do.
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You will never draw the sense of a thing unless you are feeling it at the time you work.
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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.
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Art is, after all, only a trace – like a footprint which shows that one has walked bravely and in great happiness.
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Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.
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Drawing is not following a line on the model, it is drawing your sense of the thing.
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If a certain activity, such as painting, becomes the habitual mode of expression, it may follow that taking up the painting materials and beginning work with them will act suggestively and so presently evoke a flight into the higher state.
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All manifestations of art are but landmarks in the progress of the human spirit toward a thing but as yet sensed and far from being possessed.
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Painting should never look as if it were done with difficulty, however difficult it may actually have been.
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When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
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Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
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An artist must first of all respond to his subject, he must be filled with emotion toward that subject and then he must make his technique so sincere, so translucent that it may be forgotten, the value of the subject shining through it.
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The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness. A man must become interesting to himself and must become actually expressive before he can be happy.
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Do not expect pictures to say the expected some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.
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Art when really understood is the province of every human being. It is simply a question of doing things, anything, well. It is not an outside, extra thing.
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There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body.
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